Good morning everyone! So I had the most amazing time at the gym last night! I attended Zumba, Body Pump, and Yoga. All of the classes were excellent and the people at the gym were really friendly. Yoga reminded me how much I love it! Did you know I started doing yoga when I was about 13 or 14? Yep, its been a long time love of mine! Zumba was pretty good but no class will ever live up to my gym back home . I still have a blast though.
I wore my heart rate monitor (which gave me a rash by the way!! eek!) and my total burn for the night was 1186 calories!! I could pretty much eat whatever I wanted at that point. LoL. After the gym, Alissa and I went out to eat and I ended up having a burger. I so wanted red meat after that! I ate the bun and some garlic bread too which isn’t Paleo but I needed to replace those carbs. I was joking with Alissa that I had just done an endurance event for 3 hours so I needed those carbs. She told me I had just done a new type of triathlon! Haha!
I tried a new beverage for the gym last night and it was pretty good! Sobe now makes a LifeWater made with coconut water. I tried the Pomegranate flavored version simply because it had more potassium in it. The flavor was alright (I don’t really like flavored waters and things) so next time I will try the plain. It was nice to have something other than just water! And they sell this on campus (which is totally not health conscious at all typically, I was surprised to find this) so I can get it whenever I am in a pinch on the way to the gym!
Not much else to report! I still haven’t decided on the gym. I might just join the school gym for the summer and then see how I feel in August/September when the membership expires (you pay by semester). It felt good to be in classes again!
OH I ALMOST FORGOT!!! See how excited I am? I DID PUSHUPS!!!! During Body Pump, you sometimes have to do push ups. I used to do them on an incline or on my knees and I could never do them all. I did every. single. one. I found during the whole class that I was performing way better than I ever did before. I attribute it 100% to Insanity! It has made me so much stronger. Before, running made my cardio improve faster than anything else I had ever tried. Now I’ve discovered that Insanity made me stronger in a shorter amount of time than Body Pump or anything else I ever did! I mean, it is every day and maybe that’s why, but I don’t care, it works. I love feeling strong and sexy!
On that note, happy Friday! See you next week!
Yup. PUs are excellent.
Just remember even though you’re younger and don’t have an autoimmune disease:
don’t be TOO crazy.
I got up to 64 “real” PUs at a time before I broke. My rotator cuff tore DOING PUSHUPS (without rest days). I never did the insanity-style/ fast ones, I always did 8-count pushups (8 counts for one, no bum in the air, straight plank, etc). My version was strict but it wasn’t that which busted me up (to a LOT of medical expense, pain that still bothers me, etc.). It was not giving recovery days (you could probably use one day off in between; I used none…I loved doing them, so I worked on them daily).
Be smart! It’s easy to be smarter than I am but be smart 🙂
I really hate push ups so you need not worry about me overdoing it with those! LoL. And as for 4-a-days (recall, I also ran yesterday morning), it was simply for research. I rested when I needed to during those classes. I went light on the weights. Yoga was heavenly. Not actually that sore today! But tiiiired!!
~Ang
Burning a 1,000 calories!! damn girl, that is IMPRESSIVE! Awesome job!
And Im working on the pushups too. One day.
I also enjoy doing push ups, like Lily! I am impressed by all of your efforts yesterday! And you called me a beast the other day, I think it is you who is the beast! 😉 LOVE working out hard…it feels so GOOD!